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Can I get HIV?

I have really chapped hands with open gashes, with fresh blood coming out.

I got someone elses fresh blood directly into a bloody gash of mine: however, I was not able to wash my hands for quite a LONG time, and the blood dried into my gash/lesion and my own gash dried too. Can I get HIV this way, if the blood was from an HIV positive person?
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I forgot that your cut will begin healing inside out very quickly, so I guess adding this in makes the practical risk basically zero.

Remember that your blood needs to become directly infused with his.
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Read our profiles and then you make that decision.
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Well you said something and he said something different, so idk who to believe =/
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Reread what I already said to you.
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Is he right Teak?
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If direct blood was coming out of his hand and you had an open cut which also had blood coming out, then there is a risk. and you should get tested.... of course he would need to have HIV for you to get it.
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i think that's what happened =/
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Did you shake someones hand or something and both of you had open bleeding cuts?
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You never had a risk of contracting HIV.
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I wash my hands obsessively and they are chapped and raw and have open gashes. Like I said, wet and fresh blood was coming out of my hand and the blood that got onto me was wet and fresh as well.  Pleas keep in mind that the blood dropped/pushed against and into directly into this gash and other surrounding cuts.
Thank you
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Open gashes? Explain.
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